Security News

 

Kingston Admits "Secure" USB Drives Are Vulnerable

Independent memory giant Kingston Technology has issued a highly unusual warning that several of its ..

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Secure USB Drives Not So Secure

Several hardware-encrypted USB memory sticks are now part of a worldwide recall and require security updates because..

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Catastrophic Failure: UK Loses Records of 25 Million Citizens

Government says no sign of criminal activity; famed convict says otherwise

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Hard Drive With Bill Clinton's Executive Office Records Lost or Stolen s

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has lost records detailing former President Bill Clinton's days in the Oval Office

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HM Revenue & Customs UK lost 15 million British Citizens records on CD!

Last week they admitted they lost a disc with 15,000 records on it. Now they wanted to up their game by a few of orders of magnitude. 15 million British citizens are now at risk after their data goes missing and HM Revenue & Customs has no idea where the discs have gone. Is this one of the worst data losses of all time? Read more..

 

Case Studies 1

A keystroke-logging system that allegedly allowed hackers to steal computer passwords is thought to be at the heart of a failed attempt to steal £229 million ($437m) from the London branch of a Japanese bank.

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Case Studies 2

The gang is accused of stealing from French bank accounts by installing a stealth keylogging program on users' PCs. The Trojan would infect machines through email attachments or when users visited certain Web sites. Read More..

 

Case Studies 3

PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates fraud-both insider and outsider-will cost banks $3.4 billion in 2004; Celent's Ariana-Michele Moore suggests 65 to 70 percent of that total harm is done by insiders, or between $2.2 billion and $2.4 billion.

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